The importance of time and how you manage it.

Do you ever stop to think about how much more you could accomplish if you only had a few more hours in the day? Doesn’t it seem like if you had more time, you could achieve more every day and reach larger goals even sooner? The truth is no one gets more time – and no one really needs it. You just need to know how to manage your time. Think about the great innovator, Bill Gates - he doesn’t have access to a cache of extra hours. He has the same number of minutes in a day as you do, but he seems to accomplish a great deal more. How is that possible?

You might rightly point out that these individuals have plenty of additional resources at their disposal, but that wasn’t always the case. Many of the world’s top innovators started out with the same amount of resources you currently have. That’s because achieving your goals comes down to how resourceful you can be with the time management tips that are available to you.

The most limited and precious resource we have is time. But when you learn how to manage your time, you’ll not only accomplish more, but also develop a greater sense of fulfillment in your life.

Bill Gates, the poster boy for the ultimate success wealth and philanthropy. And get this, with over a hundred of billions of dollars, he makes over thirty-three million dollars per day. He didn’t just get there on luck alone.

Let me ask you all a question. Why do some people seem to manage their time and get things done so much better than others? - The answer to this is they manage their time efficiently.

Let’s get into this!

Efficient time management is about how well you do something, but effectiveness first considers whether you should be doing it at all!

For truly effective time management, you need to back up from your to-do list and first determine your priorities and goals. Where are there unnecessary tasks that you can streamline or get rid of altogether? What are the big important things that you’ve been putting off?

Think about your day-to-day tasks. Are you focusing on results or activities? If you focus on activities, you may get to the end of the day and feel like you haven’t accomplished anything at all. Rather than focusing on checking things off or just trying to pass the time, think about the big picture results you’re aiming for.

A lot of people try to get more things done by multitasking. They stay busy all day, switching between tasks, yet they’re no closer to reaching any personal or professional goals. This is because the human brain isn’t built for multitasking.

Working on two or more things at the same time is scientifically impossible. We can rapidly switch from one task to another, but the brain can only process one activity at a time. Multitasking always gets in the way of effectiveness. By focusing on results, you are more likely to avoid distractions and focus on a single task from start to finish, until you can cross it off your list.

 Now that we’ve established the importance of effectiveness, let’s discuss how you can optimize efficiency to reach the results you want.

First, take a look at goal setting. Goal setting is a key component of time management. Setting daily goals allows you to align your activities with the big picture results you’re working at. Most of the people expects only reward but not the steps to achieve the goals. By achieving the goals. Some people find it helpful to make a list of their daily tasks. Lists can bring order to chaos, and help you organize what is otherwise overwhelming. As you can see now everyone is being at home due to the covid-19 pandemic. You can even use up this time effectively by doing consistent workout (if you are up to losing weight you can even set up your goals). Goals provide clarity, purpose, and meaning at work.

Next, prioritize your goals. Now prioritize for effectiveness. Remember, there’s no point in doing a job efficiently if you shouldn’t be doing that job at all. Think about what’s really important and how much time you’ll need to accomplish each goal. Then schedule an uninterrupted block of your time to do it. To build more efficient time management skills, you should focus primarily on tasks that are important and need to be done on the same day. After those tasks are done, then you can move on to the things that are less important and less urgent. For example, if you’re working on your schedule and you had another additional paper work where that is not too urgent. You can choose to prioritize your scheduled work first and later on slot in the additional work into your activities.

Thirdly, avoid as much distractions as possible. Distractions at work are the number one productivity drainer. One study found that Americans check their phones every 12 minutes, on average. You might not notice a big difference, but when you switch your focus to your phone and back to the task you were previously working on, you have a hard time immediately concentrating again. This habit can add up to significant amounts of productivity lost to the effects of task-switching. Now think about other distractions at work: emails, coworkers, social media, etc. Making a conscious effort to shut down distractions so you can focus on a single task will dramatically increase your productivity and overall performance.

To sum things up, effective time management skills can have a positive impact on your work and life in general. When you learn to take control of your time on a daily basis, you improve your ability to get things done, make better decisions and most importantly, gain ultimate control of your key priorities.

Hence, say a big NO to everything that does not support your immediate goals. According to a research, nearly 60% of items that people put on their to do lists are never done at all. A to do list is the graveyard of important but not urgent and when you truly realize how valuable a single minute is. A wise man once told, “we can lose money and make it back again, but time, once it’s gone, it is GONE!!

“TIME IS LIFE”!

I hope this post will be helpful in learning about the importance of time management in life – Karam.